How would I make up a study to study the effects of poverty on people?

I need to do a ';pretend'; study of poverty and how it wears on people.


Maybe a survey of random people in poverty??


How would I make up a study to study the effects of poverty on people?
you can look out how poverty effects the social and cognitive development of children in poverty





Or how poverty might have an effect on more violent or aggressive behavior





Or the effects that poverty can have on self-esteem and sexual activity and how that can effect the prevalance of more teenage mothers or the contraction of STD's





Or how poverty can increase suicide or suicidal thoughts.





Or the effects poverty can have when it comes to prejudice, discrimination, in-group and out group differences in society etc...





There are many things aside from these ideas that you can do. Check out pscyhinfo.com or pubmed.comHow would I make up a study to study the effects of poverty on people?
1. review the literature





2. from this review develop your own research questions to make the connection between your summary of this literature and then to conider what similarities and differences ther might be between 2008 and earlier times?





3. the best research on poverty has been based on participant observation so work out how to spend two or three days being as poor as the level of poverty you decide on- eg your indicators might be homelessness/,eating at soup kitchens/attempting to get social security support/asking your lecturer if you can borrow her books because you can't affort to buy any/etc





5.a) this could be a risky method so consider how you can ensure your safety/whether you really are keen enough to do it.


b)Alternatively your idea of a a survey is OK but it would have to be a purposive not a random sample . (for a truly random sample you would need a sampling frame -a comprehensive list of all the possible people who represent your population-- which is pretty likely to be non existent for 'poor people') You'd also have


-to work out how to define your key term 'people in poverty' and then -how to find them and then


-how to persuade them to talk with you.


Its a d ifficult project and one I'd not recommend for a minor paper





6 Your best bet would be to do a 'meta- analysis. This is the term used for a review of all the recent studies you get can your hands on..then pose your research questions to these documents.





nb If you enter the 3 words 'correlation poverty and' into Google you will get lots of useful web sites on a vareity of effects of poverty. I've posted one useful site below to get you started.





Whatever you decide -Good Luck
There's been enough studies done on this subject that you could probably get plenty of the information you need just by doing some research on them. See if there are documentaries you can watch, as well, because seeing it makes it much more real and brings it to life much more than just reading about it. This is something that has been documented so indepthly that I'm sure you'll find many resources of information on it which will be very helpful to you. If you choose to do a random survey of your own, don't expect much. Most people are very private and don't want to be questioned about their situations. Most of the studies done took months or years to complete. Good Luck!
well, i think you should throw a well-done steak in the middle of a downtown area and see who gets to it first. if the homeless get to it before rogue dogs... thats one hell of an effect poverty has on people.



that sounds good and maybe record in on a chart or something.